Chris Dillow — The Power Of Prosocial Motivation

Chris Dillow reports on scientific research on reciprocity as a motivator. This study suggests that reciprocity is a more powerful motivator than narrow self-interest.

What this research does do, though, is further undermine the notion that high-powered selfish incentives are the best way of motivating people. This belief probably rests more upon a desire to justify inequality than it does upon a basis of empirical evidence.

Read it at Stumbling and Mumbling — An extremist, not a fanatic
The Power Of Prosocial Motivation

Chris Dillow | "Economist, Marxist, cook, bluegrass guitarist"
His "day job" is writing for Investors Chronicle (UK)

(h/t Mark Thoma)

Not surprisingly this kind of behavior is found far down the evolutionary chain because the ability and propensity to coordinate favors adaptability rate, as Roger Erickson would say.